Seabrook’s General Receiving Hospital. – This hospital is used for
the reception of all sick and wounded soldiers upon their arrival in the city.
Immediately upon their reception, their wounds are dressed, their persons
thoroughly cleansed, (a bathing room, furnishing all the facilities for so
doing, being attached to the hospital, where both hot and cold baths can be
indulged in,) and every attention and kindness shown to these poor fellows. Here
all is order and system, no jarring in the machinery, no clashing of adverse
opinion; but everything moves smoothly, and the operations are conducted with
facility. When patients are in a fit state, they are transferred to the other
hospitals in the city.